Adam Scheffler grew up in California, received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is currently finishing his PhD in English at Harvard.

Books by Adam Scheffler:

Other poems on the web by Adam Scheffler:
Four poems
"1WTC"
"Walking Around: The Sixth Wave of Extinctions Says"
"My Other Grandparents"
"Walmart Poem"
Three poems

About A Dog's Life:

"A Dog's Life is a delightful romp through Americana by way of ‘real' America with sly, politically engaged poems. Though this poet issues a rallying cry against ‘siren songs of entertainment,' his poems are completely entertaining but, at the same time, completely wise. He takes on true love, extinction, our fragile environment, war, technology, porn, aging and our fight against it, cancer, nursing homes, and death. A Dog's Life is an enlightened look at Doritos, Carson Daly, Walmart, McDonalds, theme parks, and, of course, dogs."
—Denise Duhamel

"The real singers — whether lamenting or praising — give us a sense of life as larger than we could have expressed before they arrived. With an explorer's curiosity and drive, Adam Scheffler turns his poems into a treasury. He speaks of the value and wonder in small and large things, and like a dog (the dog he'd have us believe his soul is), meets the world with undisguised exuberance. These poems are spiritual in the way poetry is best suited to be: they articulate our good fortune to be alive."
—Bob Hicok